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Persistent form data across Experience builder pages

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ErniedeRijk
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I am creating an experience builder tool that allows people to view information regarding flood risk management plans as part of a consultation piece. Part of this is a survey123 form to allow users to provide feedback - those filling out the form will be a mix of internal and external so the form will be write only so that others cannot see other responses.

Due to the number of pages in the tool I wanted to have the questionnaire visible in each page as well ash having final page to review the answers. I have put the Survey in using a sidebar so that it can be popped out and added to at will, but the fields don't seem to persist across ExB pages. Any suggestions for this would be welcome! 

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JeffreyThompson2
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Interesting little problem. It might be possible to make this work using a Header or Footer. Headers and Footers act as little Pages within a Page and should not reset between Pages.

Try adding your Survey Widget within a Widget Controller in a Header and see if it works.

GIS Developer
City of Arlington, Texas

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JeffreyThompson2
MVP Frequent Contributor

Interesting little problem. It might be possible to make this work using a Header or Footer. Headers and Footers act as little Pages within a Page and should not reset between Pages.

Try adding your Survey Widget within a Widget Controller in a Header and see if it works.

GIS Developer
City of Arlington, Texas
ErniedeRijk
Emerging Contributor

This worked almost perfectly! there was a little bit of fiddling the formating needed to get it to look how I wanted but it does mean that the form data persists across pages so long as users minimise the form as opposed to actually closing it!

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ErniedeRijk
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Unfortunately while this worked yesterday the update applied on 26/06/2026 now causes the header widgets to refresh (and lose the current form data)

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JeffreyThompson2
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Another design would be to go back to the Survey in a Sidebar and have the other side of the Sidebar be a Section Widget. Inside the Section Widget, pack all of the content that would be on your Pages, so you never change Pages - you are changing Sections.

GIS Developer
City of Arlington, Texas
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